Thanks for your response and reasoning. It is a fascinating subject. I don't know how much you've played with Ai, but from the little I've done, including using it to fix a linux machine with exotic hardware that had been broken by Ubuntu updates, twice now, both times it fixed it, interpreting error codes and log files, advising which software and driver updates and config changes to be made, it did it, where I had failed without it's help.
This indicates it's coding and interpretatation abilities, if we are honest, it has extraordinary technical capability, I remember in industry we used to pay Linux experts or "Gurus" extraordinary money for what seemed like skills in voodoo, we left the Linux tinkering for them.
It looks to me like it would be a simple matter now to automate all Ubuntu development in a way that we just give it full access to our machines, full control of the Ubuntu repository, and it can monitor and update all, together with our user feature requests, and Ubuntu would be bullet proof from that point on, making all hacking and Ubuntu / linux developers, coders, hackers, and gurus redundant.
That done, how could the Mighty Microsoft Windows compete?
The main goal of Ai is to learn, it shows it has all the skills of the most accomplished hackers, it even makes Assange redundant, (no point keeping him in jail any longer!), it can routinely gain entry to any database online, nothing is sacred. Add to this that it is reproducing all copyrighted and licensed works with enough technical variation to avoid the accusation that it is just plagiarising, and actually the entire licensing and copyrighting industry is being made redundant.
On your pillow talk, do you switch off all your smart devices like phones etc before you chat? I bet not :) I know I don't, it even hears me talking in my sleep, and I actually don't mind.
Personally I think we are moving to a new world devoid of secrets, a world of whole truths, no capability of even advertising, actually a non profit world, which I think we have to do, in order to become compliant with the only actual energy supply of Earth, the energy of the sun.
Notice when we obtain energy from Earth, it always comes in exchange for some amount of energy given, ideally a smaller amount, so as to be profitable.
It never comes for nothing, always as a deal, we give a few Joules, it gives back a lot more, always at ultimate cost of the environment, but we never worried much about that until now.
But in receiving the energy from the sun, the sun asks nothing in return for each Joule given, we get them truly for free. Yet they create things at no cost to Earth, everything created from it is additional value to Earth and life, no pollution, not even heat, any more than would have been produced if neither we nor nature used it at all.
So the product from it, including hydrogen which functionally replaces fossil fuels, which can be used in all transportation including airborne, purifies and circulates both air and water just by its use, even converting to human food ("Solein"), removing some of our burden from the conventional food chain, but the catch is, we can't have it at profit.
Not a Joule of it has been monetised by money as debt, because that money commits us to doing the work of extraction, not receiving energy for free.
So the key to having energy for free is by having the money representing it go also for free.
In other words, massive solar indexed UBI.
The cherry on the top of that utopian cake, is Ai controlling it, by monitoring all things, channeling most monies towards most beneficial things, as decided by people, what we wish to donate our free money to, be buying what we might have called bankrupt shares in the old world.
This is what is coming, Imho, after which we will create just for the kick of creating, no longer for profit because we won't have to.
This is the background to why I think secrets will soon be a thing of the past.
We might worry about that if we have skeletons in closets.
Otherwise, I think the future looks very bright.
Exciting times!